I gathered from what he told me that he was a man who lived a very strenuous life, and I warned him against doing too much.

He was not fitted for it." "Good Lord!" exclaimed Allerdyke, with obvious impatience.

"Why, I always considered him as one of the fittest men I ever knew!" "Perhaps you did," said the doctor.

"Laymen, sir, do not see what a trained eye sees.

The proof in his case is--there!" He pointed to the dead man, at whom the night-porter was staring with astonished eyes.
Allerdyke stared, too, or seemed to stare.